Heel lining for shoes



May 18 1926. 1,585,048

. J. A. SKOGLUND HEEL LINING FOR SHOES Filed May 12, 1924 Patented May 1%, i926.

'n {Jail JOSEPH A. SKOGL'UND, OF ST. PAUL, MZNNESOTA.

HEEL LINING FOE SHOES.

Application filed May 12,

My invention relates to improvements in heel linings for shoes.

Many wearers of shoes constructed over standard lasts find the heel seats too wide and often too long. Fitting in this manner, the back of a shoe slides up and down and sidewise on the heel, with the-result that the wearer is often subjected to discomfort and even injury to the foot, not to mention the damaging wear. upon hosiery.

An object of the invention is to supply an inexpensive article of the present nature that may be readily applied to and comfort-- ably worn within a shoe as a heel seat filler.

Another object is to provide an article, as above, the same including an elastic gussetlike back designed to edect the shortening of the shoe and to yieldingly grip the shoe upon a wearers foot.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear in the following description, the invention resides in the novel combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a heel pocket lining embodying my invention, said view being taken from the front and side of the article; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the lining shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the article in placewithin a shoe; Fig. l is a longitudinal, central, sectional view also showing the article as applied to a shoe; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of an alternative form of the invention.

Referring to the drawings, it will be observed that my improvement includes side members 10, a gusset A joining said members at the back thereof and a bottom 11. These parts are seamed together edge-t0 edge, as shown, by the modern zig-zag stitch, whereby the lapping of edges is avoided. The outer surfaces of the side members 10 and the under side of the bottom 11 are gummed by being coated with a readily solvent glue of suitable character.

The gusset A comprises an upper section a and a lower section a stitched thereto, said latter section like the side members 10 and bottom 11 being of leather or other suit able non-elastic material and gummed on its outer surface with glue or the like. The upper section a of the gusset A is of surgical or other elastic material.

In applying the lining to a shoe, the glue 1924. Serial No. 712,601.

on the side members 10, bottom 11, and gusset section a is moistened and the article pressed in place in the. heel seat of a shoe (Fig. 3) with the rear lower portion thereof snugly iittted in the angle at the back of the heel seat. Upon the settin of the glue, the pocket lining becomes a l ted part of the shoe, the side members 10 filling heat the sides thereof.

The upper section a of the gusset A has a peculiar form, that is to say, it is cut so as to curve forward, at its upper extremity, from the back of the shoe (Fig. f). This arrangement has the effect of shortening a shoe. Being resilient, however, said gusset section a yields to the wearers heel, when his foot is placed in the shoe. Drawing against the heel, particularly at the hip thereof, said gusset section yieldingly grips the shoe upon the wearers foot and prevents the usual up and down annoying and chafing action of the shoe heel upon the foot.

The alternative form of heel lining shown in Fig. 5 lacks only the bottom 11 of the form first described. This alternate form saves the expense of a bottom piecein those cases, where the bottoms are not desired. This feature is accompanied by another and very important one; viz, the adaptability of the article for trimming at the bottom to suit the same to shoes of different heights. In this connection it will be understood that the lower margins of the side members 10 and gusset A may be cut down to fit a given shoe. The lower section as of said gusset, being of leather or the like, it may be conveniently trimmed down without impairment thereof. Such would not be the case, however, if the entire gusset were of elastic material and subject to fraying and unraveling when out inside of a selvaged edge. Said leather gusset section a", further, is particularly advantageous in securely anchoring the lower extremity of the gusset A to a shoe, and especially so, when no bottom is employed in the linin Changes in the specific form of my invention, as herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A heel lining for shoes including n0nelastic side members and a gusset joining said members at the back, said gusset consisting; of a lower section of non-elastic material ano an upper section of elastic material.

2. l heel lining; for shoes lneluding nonelastic side members and a gusset joining said members at the back, said gusset consisting of a lower section 01 non-elastic inatcrial and an upper section of elastic material, the outer surfaces of said side members and of said lower gusset section being guinnied :lor shoe.

3. IL lining comprising a filler pocket for he heel of :1 shoe, the same including non- ;lastic side members. an elastic gusset span- .ing tne space between the rear edges of paid members to join the same and form the back of the pocket, and a non-elastic bottom, said non-elastic parts being gunnned at their outer surfaces for application to a heel seat, the elastic gusset being; shaped to shorten the shoe over the hip ot the heel and supply a auplieation to the inner parts of a yielding grip upon the heel of the wearer. 4. A lining comprising a tiller pocket tor the heel of a shoe, the same including nonelastic side members, a gusset uniting said members at the back thereof and a non-elastic bottom, said gusset consistingof a non-elastic lower section and an elastic upper section, said non-elastic parts being guunued at their outer surfaces for applicatioi'i to the heel seat of a shoe, the elastic gusset being shaped to shorten the shoe over the hip oi? the heel and thereby supply a yielding grip upon the heel of a wearer.

In a heel pocket lining for a shoe, nonelastic side members and an elastic gusset joining; said members at the rear edges thereof, said non-elastic members being gnunned at their outer faces for application to a shoe.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

JOSEPH A. SKOGLUND. 

